Wendy Jean MacLean

Wendy Jean MacLean

Wendy Jean MacLean’s work is shaped by her lifelong engagement with mythology, gospel and spirituality. Published in Crosswinds, Gathering, Green Spirit, Ancient Paths, Boosey and Hawkes, GIA, Streetlight, Arborealis. Sheila-na-Gig, Collegeville, Amethyst Review. Awards include: Don Gutteridge Poetry Prize; Big Pond Rumours Chapbook; Open Heart; Poetry Matters; the Drummond, and a Pushcart nomination. Her music has been commissioned and sung internationally, including two pieces commissioned for the Unison Choir Festival in Halifax, in commemoration of the LGBTQ purge. Her latest book, On Small Wings, was published in 2022 by WetInk Books. Wendy is a minister of the United Church of Canada and a Spiritual Director. She is part of the current Deeptime Leadership and Wellness cohort.

If My Soul Is Stone

Journal Article

If my soul is stone / then all this anxiety / is glacial till / moving across my body. / Rough edges are dulled
by the constant rubbing / of worry, working away, / chipping and fracking …